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Family Planning: FG fails to complete 2019 counterpart fund

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 3, 2020 193 0

The Federal Government has failed to complete the payment of its counterpart fund for Family Planning activities in the 2019 health budget, investigations have revealed. Family planning is a component of health strategies to encourage child spacing, promote the health of women of child-bearing age, and to reduce financial pressures on households in Nigeria. Since […]Continue Reading

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Africans in Diaspora condemn Trump’s interference in AfDB’s leadership

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 3, 2020 173 0

The African Diaspora Congress (ADC) has condemned, in strong terms, the meddling of the United States of America in the leadership of the African Development Bank under President Akinwumi Adesina. In a statement signed by the Secretary General of ADC, Prof Apollos O Nwauwa, and the Public Relations Officer, Dr Isabelle Kemajou-Brown, the association said […]Continue Reading

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Why did COVID-19 hit Kano State below the belt?

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 3, 2020 159 0

Kano budgeted N1,805.88 per head in 2020 health projection When Kano state recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19 on April 10, 2020, many people knew that there were going to be issues in respect to the level of preparedness of the state government to adequately manage the emerging cases of the virus. The irony, […]Continue Reading

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Training Opportunity at Wits University on Media Freedom

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 3, 2020 180 0

The University of Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg has called for application for a free online journalism training.. The course would take place for a period of seven weeks and it would be titled “Media Freedom and Freedom of Expression in Africa”. The course is a free-of-charge MOOC (massive open online course) and it aims to […]Continue Reading

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“Majek Fashek: Still Raining, Gloriously” by Is’haq Modibbo Kawu

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 2, 2020 162 0

In 1988, Majek Fashek released the album, PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE, which contained the hit song, Send Down the Rain. It was a very big hit, in what would be a very rainy year in  Nigeria! The radical lyrics were very much in tune with that period in history. The struggle against apartheid was reaching it’s […]Continue Reading

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Zenith bank emerges best bank in Nigeria in the global finance world’s best banks awards 2020

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 1, 2020 162 0

Zenith Bank Plc, Nigeria’s leading financial institution, has emerged as the Best Bank in Nigeria in the recently released Global Finance Magazine World’s Best Banks Awards 2020.   The awards, which was published in the May 2020 edition of the Global Finance Magazine, was based on the performances of the banks in their respective regions […]Continue Reading

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HIV/AIDS Self-testing kit now available in Nigeria

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 21, 2020 145 0

National AIDS and STDs Control Programme (NASCP) have launched a self-testing HIV/AIDS kit called “OraQuick”. The NASCP was instituted to complement efforts by the ministry of health towards the fight against HIV and AIDS.    Organiser of NASCP, Dr. Godwin Emmanuel, in a statement on Tuesday, November 19, gave a report on the OraQuick HIV […]Continue Reading

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Zenith General Insurance’s profit before tax rises by 16% to N3.67bn

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 18, 2020 154 0

Zenith General Insurance Limited has released its full-year financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2019. A review of the results showed positive improvements on a year-on-year basis with profit before tax rising by 16% from N3.16bn to N3.67bn while profit after tax rose by 10% up from N2.79bn to N3.06bn. The company also […]Continue Reading

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Cameroon govt to help Archbishop who developed cure for COVID-19

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 12, 2020 149 0

By ChiefBisong Etahoben Cameroon’s Ministry of Public Health has dispatched a team of government pharmacists to Douala, the country’s economic capital, to meet with the Archbishop of Douala, His Grace Samuel Kleda and discuss on how best government can assist in advancing the production of his Covid-19 herbal cure which he calls “Essential Oils”. The […]Continue Reading

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Ready or not? COVID-19 and epidemic preparedness in Nigeria

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 12, 2020 157 0

By Adie Vanessa Offiong Nigeria had been waiting for it, expecting it, anticipating it. But no one knew exactly as it came in. Only in hindsight would the country piece together the story of an Italian man who arrived by air in Lagos on March 24, infected with SARS-CoV-2. By four weeks later, 1,337 people […]Continue Reading

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The mid-term JEE 2019 in Nigeria: a need to boost epidemic preparedness further

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 12, 2020 159 0

By Adie Vanessa Offiong In the third week of November 2019, experts in health security from 29 Nigerian ministries, departments and agencies gathered. Their task was to use a 49-indicator tool of the World Health Organisation to access Nigeria’s capacity to detect, prevent or respond to a disease outbreak—in effect, whether the country was prepared […]Continue Reading

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Follow the money: Can Nigeria deal with covid-19?

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 12, 2020 647 47

By Adie Vanessa Offiong As the 2019 fiscal year drew to an end, Nigeria was writing up a budget for 2020—and it was unaware how that would change. A pandemic of coronavirus disease was waiting in the wings to change all that. The pandemic started in China, shutting down production factories that run on oil […]Continue Reading